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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Page 
1. THe ORGANIZATION SRM BURL MRNAS ID can Man ah HG 3 
Relation to churches 
Relation to Northern Baptist Convention 
The Woman's Society 
2. THe MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES . . . .. . + 
Fields of work 
Quality of missionaries 
Terms of service and salary 
3: DHE: BOARD OF ‘MANAGERS | 1/0 )0 0 cinch ee saneaniare 5 
How organized 
Personnel 
Duties 
4) SHE EXECUTIVE) OFFICERS (i050 Su onemonna tee etna 6 
Names and departments 
Duties 
5. THE WoRK ON THE HOME FIELD ..... . 7 
What it is 
How conducted 
District Secretaries and state collecting agents 
Missionaries 
Department of Missionary Education 
6. THE WoRK ON THE FOREIGN FIELD. . . .. . 10 
Forms 
Organization 
Equipment 
7o)) THE BINANCTAL SIDE Mignon Mat One e neat Re 
Sources of income — apportionment 
Appropriations 
Estimates on field 
Finance Committee and budget 
Credit of the Society 
Question of home expense 
8.) Tae PAST AND: THE POU TURE WU KUN tah ene endo ndliae 14 
Results of first century 
Policy 
9. THe IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER . . . .. 4 se 15 


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What is the American Baptist 
Foreign Mission Society ? 


TITILILIPILICLCEEILi ty 


THE ORGANIZATION. 
= =HE American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 

T is the general organization of Baptists in 
the northern states through which the de- 
“_o_“u—"T"C""" NOMination conducts its foreign mission work. 
The Society meets annually in connection with the 
sessions of the Northern Baptist Convention and all 
delegates to the meeting of the Convention are members 
of the Society. Besides these the membership includes 
any delegates who may be appointed by the churches 
to the annual meeting of the society, the life members* 
and all the missionaries. 

The Society is one of the cooperating organizations 
of the Northern Baptist Convention, soliciting funds 
and making expenditures only on approval of the 
Convention. Thus it will be seen that the Society 
is very directly related to the churches; the churches 
control the policy of the Society, the missionaries are 
the representatives of the churches and the work 
that is done depends upon the support of the churches. 

Except in Bengal-Orissa the work for women is 
under the direction of the Woman’s American Baptist 
Foreign Mission Society. This is a separate organiza- 
tion cooperating with the general Society, however, 
in the appointment of missionaries and conduct of 
the work. 


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* No new life memberships have been created since 1908, but all previously 
created memberships are recognized. Asa matter of fact the annual meeting 
of the Society is composed almost if not wholly, of delegates tothe,Convention. 


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THE MISSIONS AND THE MISSIONARIES. 


SUUUDEDCRODUREDERREEL! 


=HE work conducted for the churches in non- 

T Christian lands is located in Burma, Assam, 
South India, Bengal-Orissa, South China, 

mannemnans “Hast: Chinas West: (China, Centrale Ghia, 
Japan, Belgian Congo and the Philippines. In addition 
a cooperative relationship is maintained with local 
committees in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, 
Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, 


Sweden, Spain, Russia, Finland, Denmark and Norway. 
About 700 missionaries, men and women (including 


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wives) are at work in these mission fields. They are not 


ordinary men and women. Many who apply for 
appointment are declined because of :lack of spiritual, 
physical, mental or temperamental fitness, and those 
who are chosen are in most cases those of outstanding 
ability. All have had successful experience in Christian 
work, practically all are college graduates, with a post- 
graduate or professional school course in addition. 
Some have been athletes in their school days, others 
have been successful pastors, still others have given 
up fine positions in teaching or in business to accept 
appointment as missionaries. All have been selected 
because of their ability in Christian leadership, and are 
men and women of whom the churches that have sent 
them forth can be proud. 

In most countries the first term of active service is 
six and a half years, and succeeding terms seven and 
a half years. In Belgian Congo and the Philippines, 
owing to climatic conditions, the term is shorter. A 
furlough of fifteen or eighteen months follows each 
term of active service, and every missionary is required 
to come home for his furlough at the regular time, 
unless special circumstances seem to make postpone- 
ment advisable. 

The salaries of the missionaries are based on the 
principle of support, not remuneration, hence they 
vary in different countries. ‘They also differ according 


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to length of service, ranging (for married men) from 
$1000 to $1200 in some countries and from $1200 to 
$1440 in others. An addition is made to the salary for 
each child and a house is also provided. The salary of 
a single man or woman is from $600 to $1200, with 
house rent. An outfit allowance of $200 to $400 is 
given new missionaries, and a refit of $100 to $200 to 
those returning to their work. During furlough the 
salary is $1100 for a married man, and $600 to $734 for 
a single man or woman. 

Transportation to and from the field is also provided. 
To some people these salaries will seem large, to others 
small, according to what they themselves receive. 
With rare exceptions the missionaries do not save any- 
thing from their income, while on the other hand their 
salaries are intended to be ample for all needs. 


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THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 


:HE Board of Managers administer the work 
for the Society and the churches. ‘Twenty- 
seven members constitute the Board, nine 
being chosen by the Society at each annual 
meeting. Both laymen and ministers are included in 
the membership, and a glance at their names will show 
that all are men of high standing and worthy of con- 
fidence. They meet regularly once a month in an 
all-day session, with a two-days’ meeting quarterly. 
Besides these there are special meetings and frequent 
committee meetings and conferences. The members 
give liberally of their time and thought, with the same 
spirit that actuates the missionaries. With the ex- 
ception of occasional executive sessions, all meetings 
of the Board are open, and nothing would give a better 
idea of the work than attendance upon one of these 
meetings. Missionaries and others who have sat with 
the Board have invariably expressed their surprise 
and gratification at the earnest, conscientious, sym- 
pathetic and prayerful spirit in which the business is 


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conducted. The Board appoint the missionaries, direct 
their work, make all appropriations, and decide the 
innumerable questions that come up for discussion 
through the year. 


THE EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. 


ADDUEDERECEOCODEUR OES 


=HE plans and policies of the Board of Managers 

A) are carried out under the direction of the 
executive officers at the headquarters of the 
umes Society, 800 Ford Building, 15 Ashburton 
Place, Boston. ‘These officers are eight in number. 
The General Secretary, Emory W. Hunt, has advisory 
relation to all the departments, and is especially in 
charge of the general financial campaign and the se- 
curing of new missionaries. The Home Secretary, 
Fred P. Haggard, and the Assistant Secretary in the 
Home Department, William B. Lipphard, have charge 
of the educational work in the churches and Sunday 
schools, correspondence relating to the Station Plan 
and the support of workers, the direction of the District 
Secretaries, the deputation work of missionaries on 
furlough, relationship to certain important interde- 
nominational agencies, and the preparation and circu- 
lation of literature. The Foreign Secretaries, James 
H. Franklin and Arthur C. Baldwin, with the Assistant 
Secretary in the Foreign Department, George B. 
Huntington, have in charge the large correspondence 
with the missionaries relating to all interests of the work 
on the foreign fields. Dr. Franklin has oversight of the 
work in China, Japan, the Philippines, Belgian Congo 
and Europe, while Mr. Baldwin is similarly related 
to Burma, Assam, South India and Bengal-Orissa. 
The development of the policies and plans for the work 
abroad is a large task belonging to the Secretaries in 
the Foreign Department. The Treasurer, Ernest S. 
Butler, and the Vice-Treasurer, John F. Barnes, 
receive and care for the money, invest the funds, 
disburse the appropriations and keep the multitude 


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of accounts required. Each department has related 
to it subcommittees of the Board with whom the exec- 
utive officers consult frequently in preparation of bus- 
iness for the Board. Associated with the executive 
officers is a trained and efficient staff of assistants, 
clerks and stenographers, all of whom are earnest 
Christians, giving their faithful service with true 
missionary interest to the common cause. Few people 
realize what a vast amount of work is involved in the 
conduct of so complex an enterprise comprising ele- 
ments that in this country are usually cared for by 
separate organizations: Evangelization, Education, 
Medical work, Industrial work, Translation and 
Publication. 


THE WORK ON THE HOME FIELD. 


=N order to stimulate interest and prayer on 

if behalf of the work among the churches at 
= home and to secure continual and increasing 
— contributions, it is necessary to keep the 
churches in touch with the work of the missionaries. 
This is necessary as well for the life of the churches 
themselves as for the continuance of the work abroad. 
This work on the home field includes information, 
inspiration and collection of money, and as stated 
elsewhere, is done through the Home Department. 

The District Secretaries, ten in number, represent 
the Society in this work among the churches. With 
these should be included five secretaries of state mis- 
sionary bureaus or collecting agencies, appointed 
by the State Conventions. These are as follows: 


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New Enctianp District: (Maine, New Hampshire, 
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- 
Hecticout) a Revert. tH. Jo iLerrico,, M.D.*,:716 
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* Represents also the American Baptist Home Mission Society and American 
Baptist Publication Society. 


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New Yorx District: (New York, New Jersey— 
Fast, North, Morris & Essex and Monmouth 
Associations) Rev. A. L. Snell, 23 East 26th 
Street, New York City. 


SOUTHEASTERN District: (Pennsylvania, Del- 
aware, District of Columbia, New Jersey— 
Camden, West, Trenton, Central Associations) 
Rev.:E 8: Dobbins, 1701 Chestnut St., Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. 


Kanawua District: (West Virginia) J. 5S. Stump, 
D.D.,** 1705 Seventeenth St., Parkersburg, 
. Va. 


Outo-Inp1ana District: (Ohio and Indiana) Rev. 
C. E. Stanton,** Granville, Ohio. 


Laxe District: (Illinois) J. Y. Aitchison, D.D.,** 
19 South La Salle St., Chicago, III. 


SuPpERIOR District: (Minnesota, North Dakota, 
south: -Dakota). Frank- Peterson; - D.Di™ 
407 Evanston Building, Minneapolis, Minn. 


SOUTHWESTERN District: (Kansas, Colorado, Ok- 
lahoma, New Mexico) I. N. Clark, D.D., 614 
Massachusetts Building, Kansas City, Mo. 


YELLOwsTONE District: (Montana, Wyoming, 
Utah, Idaho, Eastern Washington) C. A. Cook, 
D.D.,** 1503 Mission Ave., Spokane, Wash. 
(P. O. Box 1, Sta. A.) 


Paciric District: (California,Oregon, Western Wash- 
ington, Nevada, Arizona) Rev. A. W. Rider, 
812 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. 


** Represents also the American Baptist Home Mission Society. 


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Missourntr: H. E. Truex, D.D.,{ Metropolitan 
Building, Grand and Oilve Sts., St. Louis, Mo. 


Nesraska: Wilson Mills, D.D.,f 905 Omaha 


National Bank Building, Omaha, Nebr. 


Micuican: Rev. E. M. Lake,f 536 E. Michigan 
Ave., Lansing, Mich. 


Wisconsin: Rev. H. R. MacMillan,t 1717 Wells 
St., Milwaukee, Wis. 


Iowa: S.E. Wilcox, D.D.,+ Des Moines, Iowa. 


Special Joint Secretary — A. W. Anthony, D. D.,+ 
Lewiston, Me. 


These secretaries are all eager to cooperate with 
the churches, making suggestions regarding methods 
of work, helping in the solution of problems, distri- 
buting literature, visiting the churches so far as time 
will permit, and receiving missionary offerings. Hearty 
cooperation is needed between pastors, treasurers 
and other leaders in the churches and the district sec- 
retaries, to secure the largest results in the work. 

An important factor in disseminating missionary 
information is the deputation work of missionaries 
at home on furlough. Not all are available for this 
work, but as many as possible are sent among the 
churches on carefully planned itineraries, carrying 
their inspiring message. 

The general missionary education work is carried 
on through the Department of Missionary Education, 
23 East 26th Street, New York City, of which John 
M. Moore, D.D. is secretary. This is the authorized 
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THE WORK ON THE FOREIGN FIELD. 


TOCCRGODEOUAUOEREEIS 


=OST of the missionaries are engaged princi- 

M pally in evangelistic work, by which is meant 
preaching tours through the country, care 
ou" of churches and direction of evangelists or 
Bible women. Many, however, are teachers, having 
oversight of day schools for boys, or girls, or acting 
as principals of high schools, or directing industrial 
schools, or serving as professors in the mission colleges 
or theological seminaries. Following the example of 
the Great Physician, other missionaries are doctors, 
in charge of hospitals and dispensaries and training 
native physicians and nurses. The Bible and Christian 
literature must be circulated, and some missionaries 
give their attention, wholly or in part, to translating 
the Bible into the language of the people, writing books 
or tracts, or superintending the printing and circulation 
of this literature. Still other missionaries are in charge 
of orphanages, widows’ homes, or leper asylums. 
Yet others are business agents or stenographers, and 
one is the captain-evangelist in charge of the Gospel 
Ship in Japan. Whatever the special form of their 
work, they are first of all Christian missionaries, using 
the talents and abilities that they have to help establish 
the Kingdom of God in the lands to which they have 
gone. 

In each field the missionaries have organized them- 
selves into a Conference, which in most cases meets 
annually for the discussion of problems of the work. 
Between sessions of the conference a reference commit- 
tee represents the mission body, acting on matters 
referred to them by the missionaries or the Board. 
Property interests, including the erection of all mission 
buildings, are in charge of a property committee. A 
language examination committee directs the language 
study of newly appointed missionaries. Higher edu- 
cational institutions have advisory boards of trustees, 
and medical work is under the oversight of a medical 


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committee. Other committees are appointed as needed. 
While these committees take much time and thought, 
they are an integral part of the missionary’s work and 
a most important part, too, coordinating and strength- 
ening the work of all, preventing loss and in very 
many ways increasing efficiency. 

Large sums have been invested in the equipment 
of the work on the foreign field. ‘The missionaries 
must have suitable homes; schools must have buildings, 
apparatus and libraries; preaching halls and chapels 
must be built; doctors must have dispensaries and 
hospitals; and printing presses must be housed. ‘Then 
there is the fine Gospel Ship and the touring outfits, 
carts, ponies, tents, gospel wagons, motor launches, 
motorcycles, and many other things, all needed for 
carrying the glorious gospel message to the people in 
cities and villages, mountains and jungles. ‘There 
are many buildings in the missions as good as can be 
found anywhere in the Fast, like the Cushing Memorial 
Buildings of Rangoon Baptist College, or the American 
Baptist Mission Press at Rangoon, or the Ashmore 
Theological Seminary at Swatow, China, or the new 
Central Tabernacle in Tokyo, Japan. Unfortunately 
not all the work is as well cared for, lack of money 
making it impossible to provide the missionaries with 
the equipment which is absolutely essential to the 
largest use of their abilities and opportunities. <A 
quarter of a million dollars is urgently needed to equip 
the present work as it ought to be. 


THE FINANCIAL SIDE. 


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=HERE does the money come from to carry 
on all this great work? From several sources. 
The principal one is the churches, Sunday 
schools and young people’s societies. In- 
dividual gifts constitute another prominent source. 
Then there are legacies, income from permanent 
funds, matured annuity bonds, and gifts designated 


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by the donors for specific purposes. Every year, 
before appropriations are made, a budget of anticipated 
receipts and expenditures is made up. An estimate 
of needed appropriations is prepared by each mission- 
ary. ‘These are reviewed by the mission conference 
or reference committee, and with the estimates for 
home expenditures are further studied by the Board 
of Managers. The probable receipts are also carefully 
estimated, and the whole budget, over a million dollars, 
is submitted to the Finance Committee of the Northern 
Baptist Convention and later acted upon finally by 
the Convention itself. The amount needed from 
churches is apportioned to them through the General 
Apportionment Committee of the Convention and the 
state apportionment committees. Of course no one 
can know until the close of the year how much money 
will be received, and if the receipts fall short a deficit 
is the result. A serious element in the problem is the 
custom of most churches of withholding their offerings 
until the last month of the year. Indeed, more than 
two thirds of the money comes in during the last 
fifteen days. This makes it necessary to borrow large 
sums, paying for interest what otherwise might be 
expended in the work. 

The credit of the Society is so good, however, that 
whenever it is necessary to borrow, any amount can 
be secured on the note of the Treasurer, without pledg- 
ing any security whatever. The drafts on the Treasurer 
can be sold anywhere in the world at the highest market 
price. The Society has always paid every obligation 
promptly and always will. This is recognized by many 
who wish to leave money to the Society when they die, 
but need the income during their life, and who have 
given funds on this basis. More than $500,000 is thus 
. held in annuity bonds and over $800,000 in other per- 
manent funds. 

A financial question regarding which there is often 
misunderstanding is the proportion expended here in 


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America for administration. On this it should be said 
that the cost of administering the work is less than that 
of any private business of the same size. It is propor- 
tionately less than that of the state conventions, and 
while more than that of a few other foreign mission 
societies, the difference is due to clearly recognizable 
reasons. Some societies conduct certain phases of their 
administrative work through the missionaries on the 
field instead of through the home office, and the expense 
is included in the foreign field expenditures, or, as in 
the case of Methodist missionary bishops, is not charged 
to the account of the Board at all, but is provided by 
a separate fund. Some boards pay no rent, others 
have special funds to care for special departments, and 
still others have secretaries serving without salary 
or with salary provided in part privately. If all 
societies could be compared on the same basis the 
proportion of expenditures for administration would 
probably be found about the same in all. 

This home expense item is based on a more or less 
arbitrary classification. For example, the administra- 
tive work conducted through mission treasurers on the 
foreign field is charged to foreign field expenditures, 
while similar expense here at home is charged to home 
expenditures. Cne is not criticized, the other is. As 
a matter of fact, criticism of the expense of home ad- 
ministration rests on a premise that is fundamentally 
wrong—that the only real missionary work is what is 
done by the missionaries on the field, and that everything 
they do is real missionary work. But as already indi- 
cated, a very large part of a missionary’s time is given 
to administrative work. On the other hand the work 
of the secretaries and other officers here at home is 
not purely administrative, but has a spiritual side, 
developing the religious life in the churches and 
contributing directly and largely to the establishment 
of the world-wide Kingdom of Jesus. After all, the 
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heathen; for money is not sent to the heathen, but the 
gospel. The question should rather be as to how widely 
the gospel is being spread through each dollar. So 
it does not matter where the money is spent, whether 
in Boston, or London, or Madras, or Shanghai, so that 
the gospel is given to the world. 


THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. 


SUPDERSOUDOMGSEESEODLS 


=HE results of the more than a century of work 
cannot be tabulated. Over 585,000 have been 
baptized on all the mission fields, including 
Europe. Hundreds of thousands have re- 
ceived a Christian education. In a single year more than 
a hundred thousand sufferers have received a practical 
illustration of Christian love in medical service. But 
figures do not tell the whole story. The results of 
Christian work in non-Christian lands are seen also 
in higher social standards, reform movements, recog- 
nition of the Christian Sabbath, changes in native 
religious life and friendliness to Christianity. 

Yet the success of the past is but an indication of 
what may yet be achieved. The opportunities are 
boundless in every land. The only limitations are those 
set by the home churches in their supply of missionaries 
and money. To meet the situation the Board have 
adopted the following comprehensive policy, which 
as rapidly as possible is being carried into effect. 

The Foreign Mission Society holds: 

(1) That intensive development of the work in 
sections already occupied is for the immediate future 
a more imperative duty than entrance upon new fields. 
Many of the stations of the Society are inadequately 
supplied with workers and equipment, with the result 
that in some cases the work neither commands the 
respect of the people nor yields returns in proportion 
to the effort expended. The entrance upon new fields, 
demanded by the clear indications of divine Providence, 
will itself demand definite increase of resources. 


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(2) That effort should be directed to the establish- 
ment, at strategic points, of strong Christian commun- 
ities which shall be permanent forces of evangelization 
and which will gradually assume full responsibility 
for the extension of the Kingdom in their own lands. 
Preaching of the gospel by foreign missionaries must 
continue, but should in each region give place as soon 
as practicable to evangelization by the native Christian 
forces. 

(3) That education, especially of the Christian 
youth and the children of Christian parents, is a matter 
of pressing importance. Only by such education can 
the Christian community become and remain a potent 
force in the life of the nation, or leaders be provided 
to carry forward the work of evangelization and the 
building up of the Christian community. 

(4) That to the utmost practical extent there should 
be cooperation with other Christian bodies working 
in the same fields. Such cooperation is of special 
importance in the department of higher education, 
where students are relatively few and education ex- 
pensive. 


THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER 


“w"""STINALLY, the importance of prayer must 
UF always be kept in mind. Missionaries are not 
sufficient to accomplish the task; money, 
__—_—" though essential, is not the most powerful 
factor. But God’s resources are infinite, and the 
supreme need is faith in Him and adequate prayer. 
If the churches will give themselves to prayer, all that 
is needed will be provided. It is only through His 
power that the missionaries can win success, and 
through Him alone that the ultimate triumph will 
come. 


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For additional literature or any other information regara- 
ing the work of the American Baptist Foreign Mission 
Society, write to any of the following: — 


The nearest District Secretary. 


Department of Missionary Education, 23 East 26th Street, 
New York City. 


Literature Department, Box g1, Boston, Mass. 





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